Currently the house of the circle is featuring the audio/video recording of Anthony Braxton’s first Sonic Genome project, recorded at Wesleyan University’s hockey rink in May 2003. A Sonic Genome is an eight-hour continuous performance featuring over 50 musicians, click here for more info.
For the 2003 recording, there were two different video angles, and four audio channels: an overall field recording of the entire experience, one moving set of microphones capturing different moments of activity, close-miked ‘friendly experiencer’ musicians that move independently around the space, and one mix of all these elements combined.
Whenever you click on the circle, you are dropped into a randomized 10-minute sample of this Sonic Genome recording. While the audio channel corresponds with the video imagery, it can be any of the four channels mentioned above.
Credits
(Please note: there may be inadvertent misspellings or omissions in the credits, feel free to contact us with corrections)
Musicians: Matt Bauder**, Will Berman, Anthony Braxton***, Todd Brozman, Taylor Ho Bynum***, Allan Chase*, Jean Cook, Tom Crean*, Chris Dahlgren***, Andrew Raffo Dewar*, Jorrit Dijkstra, Tim Eastman, Brandon Evans*, James Fei**, Robin Gehrtner, Phil Grenadier, Amelia Hollander, Frances Jacobus-Parker, Gabe Johnson, Charlie Kohlhase, Max Kraft, Okkyung Lee, Matt Lerner, Allan Lipson, Michael McClaughlin, Richard McGhee*, Mark Hatch Miller, Seth Misterka*, Jackson Moore**, Sam Morrison*, Simon O’Connor, Michele Oshima, Jessica Pavone, Bhob Rainey, Sam Raney, Anne Rhodes, Matana Roberts, Dan Rosenthal, Eric Rosenthal, Bethany Ryker, Julia S., Aaron Ali Sheik, Asa Sourdiffe, Daniel St. Clair, Carl Testa, Matthew Welch**, Cliff White, Charlie Wilmoth*, Nate Wooley, Douglas Yates, Anna Zayaruznaya
* Section leaders
** Quadrant leaders
*** Principal conductors/event producers
Mark Frankel - live sound recording and mixing
Colin Marston - recording assistant
CJ Eichinger - DVD preparation